September 11, 2009

Boxed In

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Boxed In is a fun little game by Dennis Mengelt.  The point of this game is to move wooden boxes and around the board and collect the gears inorder to find a clear path to the exit.  While moving about the board, you can only push objects, no pulling.  And you can only move it if there is a blank space behind it, so no pushing two blocks at a time.

While some of the levels were extremely easy, there is definitely expert levels in this app as well.  You have one option to move back one space too in case you accidentally make a move you didn’t intend to, or puts you in a bind.  This app makes is simple to move about as well with simple directional finger movements anywhere on the screen, so you don’t have to place you finger exactly on the little robot guy.

The only recommendations I have for this app in the future is to have some sort of high score tally or a way to keep track of progress outside of level completion.  Hopefully there will be more levels added soon too.  It took me a while to get through the 50 they have but now that I’ve completed them, there’s no where to go.  Another added feature would be a back to home screen button somewhere in the game.  Once on a level, there is no way to get back in case you forgot the instructions without restarting the app.  Overall an extremely addictive and fun game though, just needs some minor updates that other games already have.

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